Polite Paws Dog Training

Thank you Tina for your great job with my Lola today. You are amazing with her. Today Tina trained Lola to maintain calm near other people and dogs out at a park. Great job.

Tina did a great job with our dog. a little over a year ago we rescued a dog from a shelter, from his behavior we could tell he had been abused, but knew little of his prior history For a long time he had the run of our house but this summer we welcomed our first baby and our dog was less than pleased. Tina worked wonders with our dog. He listens, is well behaved, and sits, lays down, and stays on command! Even our groomer who was unaware that our dog had received training noticed the difference in his behavior when she gave him a wash and cut since his training… she gave him a great compliment «best groom ever» and said he was relaxed and calm the whole time! Many thanks to Tina for the big improvement!

My dogs were a nightmare. They were a couple of spasmodic nutjobs who barked at the neighbors and people walking by and pretty much made a nuisance of themselves. I’d tried everything, including hiring a professional trainer about a year ago, to no avail. My dogs were still crazy. Then I met Tina.
After meeting my dogs, Tina was quick to diagnose the my dogs as having barrier aggression. They weren’t pcychos, they just were insecure about who was boss.
Tina came over and in a half hour had trained me well enough to get my dogs to sit on command, lie down on command, and overall, act like well behaved pooches.
Tina trained me in the fine art of talking dog and soon enough I’d established who was in charge and the dogs were calmer, better behaved, and a lot less insane.
This week she trained me how to make them stay and it was amazing. In the backyard, where most of the times my dogs are barking hysterically, they were cool and collected as neighbors AND THEIR DOGS walked past in complete silence. It was miraculous.
In just a few visits, Tina had trained me how to behave in a way that gave my dogs a sense of security I didn’t even know they were missing. Now my dogs are. .. well it’s only been two lessons so I’m not taking them to Westminster yet. But they aren’t nearly as crazy and they manage to let people walk by without having a heart attack. They sit. They stay. They listen to me.
All because Tina came over and let me tell you, she didn’t come over to train the dogs. She came over to train me.

While researching trainers for my newly adopted Shar Pei I found Tina. I emailed her first with some questions about how training would work and she was prompt to get back to me and her answers were better than I would have hoped for any training program. Some of the issues with my dog were that he didn’t want people to come into the house as well as issues with bad leash manners. So to deal with his anxiety over visitors to the house, we first met for training at her dog grooming salon. She gave me some leadership exercises and our dog has become so much more confident and comfortable in our home now that he knows I’m in charge. Visitors are not an issue anymore. The last few sessions were at our house, and in home training made the whole process more fun. Due to the training being over Thanksgiving week I found Tina was flexible on scheduling which was very helpful when everything got a little crazy and I needed to move my dog’s last session back a week. I am also very grateful to Tina for listening to what I wanted to accomplish with training for my dog and tailoring the training to meet those goals. Walking my dog is now much more of a treat for both of us than it ever was before, and training with Tina helped comfortably integrate my dog completely into my family and feel confident in our home.

Tina has walked our dog daily for about a year. She is dependable, reliable and her services are reasonably priced. She leaves us notes letting us know the time she was there, what our dog did on the walk. She is super responsive and flexible if we need her at a different time, etc. Her main focus is on dog training, but she offers walking and grooming, as well.
We’ve recommended her to our friends and neighbors. She is great!